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RB 60/00064 O'Donoghues Castle copper prospect, Balcanoona Station.
Irregular oxidised orebodies up to about 3 feet thick, containing copper carbonates, quartz, sphaerocobaltite (cobalt carbonate) and wad (hydrated manganese oxide), occupy both shear zones aligned parallel with bedding, and crush zones developed...-
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Published: 26 Mar 1965
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RB 42/00012 Diamond drilling, Mount Howden cobalt mine.
Two diamond drillholes, designed to test at depths from 70 to 100 feet the most favorable outcrops of cobalt-nickel mineralisation, failed to intersect extensions of the lode. Secondary erythrite mineralisation found along bedding seams, joints, and...-
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Published: 01 Nov 1955
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RB 81/00090 Results of sampling the Telecom coaxial cable trench between Orroroo and Broken Hill.
89 samples were analysed for 18 elements. The mean cobalt value for the Umberatana Group is about 3 times the world average for shales.-
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Published: 01 Jan 1981
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Calca and Poochera (the Streaky Bay Project). Data release made in lieu of submitting a first partial relinquishment report : joint annual reports for the period 22/10/2001 to 13/2/2005.
A multipart licence project area located approximately 100-150 km south-east of Ceduna is being targeted for possible Voiseys Bay type nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metal deposits within mafic to ultramafic basement rocks buried beneath...-
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Commonwealth Hill, Perfection Well, Wirrida North, Nelson Bore and Ingomar (the Commonwealth Hill Joint Venture Project). Joint annual reports and final report to licences' respective expiry/renewal, for the period 6/10/1995 to 6/12/1998.
Exploration for Challenger - type primary gold deposits that may possibly have formed within buried Archaean basement rocks in the Commonwealth Hill area, which is the purpose of one of two joint venture agreements currently in force between Minotaur...-
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Published: 06 Jan 1999
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mutooroo mine. Annual reports for the period 13/3/2000 to 1/11/2013.
Exploration Licence 2704 covering 23 square km surrounding the historic abandoned Mutooroo copper mine, located ~55 km east of Olary, was granted to Havilah Resources NL so that the company could assess the economic potential of the remaining sulphide...-
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Published: 02 Dec 1913
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Hammond. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2018 to 6/6/2020.
An area centred ~55 km east of Port Augusta was taken up to explore for possible economic near-surface cobalt mineralisation, after historic records of geochemical sampling that returned elevated cobalt values were found during searches of SARIG open...-
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Published: 02 Aug 1920
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Manners Well. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded area centred ~65 km north-east of Parachilna, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has occurred, but where no...-
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Penong B area and Yumbarra (part of the Eucla Basin Project tenement Group 2). Joint final report at licences' joint expiry/full surrender, for the period 16/11/2012 to 15/11/2017.
Two adjoining areas located north of Koonibba were taken up to explore this part of the south-eastern Eucla Basin for possible buried economic marine placer deposits of heavy mineral sands (HM), because they were believed to contain shallow or exposed...-
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Published: 12 Sep 1917
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Kanyaka. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 7/6/2018 to 6/6/2020.
A large area centred ~40 km north-east of Quorn has been explored for possible economic near-surface cobalt mineralisation, after historic records of geochemical sampling that returned elevated cobalt values were found during searches of SARIG open...-
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Published: 02 Aug 1920
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Narrina. Combined first annual/final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 2/10/2018 to 1/10/2019.
An intensely faulted and folded metasedimentary area centred ~50 km east-northeast of Blinman, where extensive hydrothermal alteration is evident in the Neoproterozoic bedrock, and where considerable past small-scale surface mining activity has...-
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Mount Gunson - MG14 deposit metallurgy. Research reports for the period October 1974 to August 1984.
In October 1975, Mount Gunson mine operator Pacminex determined that the composition of mineable copper sulphide ore potentially obtainable from the undeveloped MG14 area would very likely be more difficult to process than existing Cattlegrid mine...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : Mount Gunson (part of the Mount Gunson Project). Annual reports for the period 18/10/2008 to 24/3/2018.
During licence Year 15 (2008-2009), activities at Mount Gunson comprised: - pegging of three Mineral Claims at the MG 14 deposit in December 2008; - acquiring part of a larger project-wide ground gravity survey during April-May 2009 (510 stations...-
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Published: 22 Aug 1918
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Cattlegrid mine and surrounding lease areas. Mine planning calculations of deposit reserves, including those of orebody extensions, plus a report on a review of copper resources, for the period 1983-1984.
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Walparuta Project geophysical program: acquisition and interpretation of high resolution airborne magnetic / radiometric and ground gravity surveys. Final report, Project ADI RD02-264 [part of Accelerated Discovery Initiative Round 2, 2022].
This report details the field acquisition and data processing, inversion and interpretation stages of the Walparuta geophysical program conducted in December 2021. The work was focussed on the Walparuta Project area, located 20 km north of Manna Hill...-
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Published: 28 Apr 1922
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RB 67/00086 Geochemical exploration in the Stirling-Clarendon area.
Approximately 1000 geochemical drainage samples have been collected in two areas within the Stirling - Clarendon project area. Twelve square miles have been sampled in the Lenswood area at an average density of 27 samples to the square mile, and 26...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1970
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RB 65/00035 Clare Regional Geochemical Project.
This investigation was a feasibility study, therefore environmental factors are dealt with in much more detail than would be necessary in a routine geochemical report. Apparently these factors has little significant effect on the results. Spot...-
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Published: 01 Jan 1967
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Wyacca (part of the Hawker Project). Annual reports plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 17/1/2011.
EL 3492 was originally taken out to cover the historic copper workings at Wyacca, located 40 km east of Hawker, as part of an exploration project addressing possible economic shallow oxide copper mineralisation associated with old mines and workings...-
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Published: 06 Apr 1911
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PACE 2020 Initiative : PACE Targeting, Year 1 partnership no. 16 - Cockabidnie Project airborne 25Hz TEMPEST electromagnetic geophysical survey. Project PT1-16 final report.
To help with exploration of the ~ 5 km long, NNE trending Kimban Campoona Syncline region located on central Eyre Peninsula, to look for a large range of potentially economic basement-hosted polymetallic and other mineral occurrences including iron...-
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Published: 15 Oct 1912
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Willouran Hill. Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 24/8/1998 to 23/8/2000.
A review of previous exploration indicated prospectivity for secondary Cu mineralisation near old workings in the Willouran Hill area, approximately 20 km south-west of Marree. A more systematic evaluation of anomalous Au was also considered to be...-
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